Acton was a member of the faculty of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London.[1]
Acton's research projects have included analyses of IAEA safeguards in Iran, verifying disarmament in North Korea and preventing novel forms of radiological terrorism.[4]
In the context of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents, Acton was able to distill a succinct analysis which was widely reported.[5]
- "Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic...This was a crisis that played out in real time on TV. Chernobyl did not."[6]
- "The key question is whether we have correctly predicted the risk that a reactor could be hit by a disaster (natural or man-made) that is bigger than it is designed to withstand."[7]
